Barron’s hires Lajoie as a senior data journalist

Marc Lajoie

Barron’s has hired Marc Lajoie as a senior data journalist.

He will start next week.

Lajoie has been working for CNN as visuals editor for “As Equals,” CNN International’s long-term project on gender inequality. He previously was with CBC/Radio Canada as a data journalist and also worked for the South China Morning Post as an Americas correspondent.

Lajoie also worked for the China Daily in Hong Kong and for The Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong as a multimedia editor.

He has a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s degree from the University of Bolton.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.